A Convention Shattering Ending

Endeavouring to augment my lockdown entertainment levels, yesterday evening I rewatched the classic Alfred Hitchcock 1958 movie Vertigo. The psychological thriller which bravely cocked a snook at the happy ending rule book. Which until that juncture seemed to dictate even the starkest of celluloid offerings concluded with the hero/heroine intact….. Well, almost, anyhow. A decade…